Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/Bill Ingalls of Orbital Sciences Antares rocket as part of ORB-D Mission: CLICK photo to view larger size and see below for info and related mission links to include where to stream live and where you can potentially watch the launch from if you reside on the East Coast of the United States.

On Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 1652 UTC (1252 EDT) from Launch Pad-0A (LP-0A) at Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia; Orbital Sciences will be launching Cygnus Spacecraft atop an Antares rocket as part of Orb-2. This will be Orbital’s third overall flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and the second official resupply mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) initiative.

After free-drift the spacecraft will be grappled via the Canada-Arm and berthed to the Harmony Module of the ISS where it will remain for approximately six months before being loaded with waste and released to disintegrate in Earth’s atmosphere.

This mission is dedicated to former NASA astronaut and Orbital Sciences employee, Janice Voss. She is represented by the gold trim on the Orb-2 mission patch.

FIRST CORE/BOOST STAGE = is 27.6 meters (90.5ft) in height and 3.9 meters (12.8ft) in diameter and is powered by 2 AeroJet AJ26-62 engines which are actually converted Russian NK-33 engines, YES, the same engines that were going to fly the massive Soviet N1 Moon Rocket off of the Earth’s surface and on to the Moon. They are liquid fueled, burning Liquid Oxygen / Rocket Propellant-1 Kerosene (LOX/RP-1) and burn for 235 seconds. GO ANTARES – GO CASTOR – GO CYGNUS & GO ORB-2!!!